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@dhh Thx for sharing @dhh. We are also a heavily distributed small company at @Digital_Route, meeting on a regular basis. I spotted in the video a few things we should try. Is there a longer-form version on ingredients of a successful meetup for distributed teams? Blog post maybe?

Nothing can substitute for spending time together in person as a way to build bonds, create connections, and foster trust with your colleagues. There's just a special kind of magic that comes from being together, which Zoom will never match or catch. But what's enabled the remote-work revolution to be effective is that these moments don't need to happen every day, week, or even month. At 37signals, we've been doing company-wide meetups twice a year for over fifteen years. Through these meetups, we've secured the lion's share of the social in-person benefits afforded by an office, while allowing nearly eighty people from twenty countries to collaborate happily and effectively. It's remarkable how nourishing it can be simply to see your coworkers every six months, and then rely on those fully-charged trust batteries to carry you through the interim. Being unable to do this during the pandemic really underscored how critical meetups are to make the whole remote-work arrangement successful. We were deprived meetups for a good two and a half years, and we felt it. But at least we had the recollection of what remote work could be like from the time before the pandemic. Many people got their first experience with remote work during the pandemic, and were deprived of these recharging opportunities, so it's no wonder a fair number of them didn't like it. But how do you actually pull off a successful meetup for a remote company? That's something we've been trying to perfect at 37signals, and, dare I say it, something we've gotten pretty damn good at over the many years. So we thought we'd share our process. In this video, Andrea and Bethany will walk you through how they organized our latest company meetup in New Orleans, using Basecamp of course. There are a million details to keep track of, and it can seem pretty daunting at first, but if you have a solid tool to help, it becomes way easier. However you decide to do it, I can't recommend enough committing to doing meetups as part of the deal for making remote work work. They might seem expensive at first glance, but you're likely to pay far more for neglecting the value of direct, human connection without them.

Using ChatGPT to write your emails? Don’t forget to add “concise” or specify a max number of words in your prompt… much like you didn’t have time to write your own email, I don’t have the time to parse 5 paragraphs of fluff to extract one simple message… #ChatGPT

This podcast discussion between @cajundiscordian and @GaryMarcus on #AI by @BigTechnology is a great listen for 2 reasons: 1. great details and nuances on AI 2. hearing 2 people with significantly different opinions have a constructive and civil debate is becoming way too rare!

ChatGPT is a very “proficient producer of bullshit”. You can be impressed by its answers but it’s important to understand the fundamental limitations of the model.

A simple algorithm to decide whether to use ChatGPT, based on my recent article (lnkd.in/eeZ5YNJh)

Once again, @dhh has a point... “With such riveting names as WS-SecurityPolicy, WS-Trust, WS-Federation, WS-SecureConversation, and on and on ad nauseam, this monstrosity of complexity mushroomed into a cloud of impenetrable specifications in no time”

.@SL_Stockholm when trains are as full as today (issues red line) what are standing #passengers standing up in aisle of seating sections supposed to hold on to? #Trains not designed for #density … #poorplanning #shortermview on positive note it’s promoting conversation

Are you familiar with the expression "Revenue Leakage"? Something that every business moving to #XaaS needs to consider. Here's a post using recent @netflix news to discuss the issue: linkedin.com/pulse/netflixs…

.@sheetalepansare @FuturismTechno I'm out of options to unsubscribe from unsolicited messages from your company. As soon as I get person to stop the next one takes over. Please stop immediately this #spam (your company is in violation of every regulation on the topic) #GDPR

I don’t know what emotion takes precedence here: “wow, 24 years! Now that’s good technology!” Or “gosh, I am old!” (I probably did not start with curl on day one but by 2000 it definitely was part of my daily routine). Well done @bagder

Watching @Koskelin talk about @KONECorporation at the @awscloud Summit. Now, this looks like a usage data challenge of the scale that we like to solve at @Digital_Route !

@gcabhijeet @RonnieScrewvala “never ever interrupt a customer. Customer information is gold.” — “advice” given by an angry CEO to an over-zealous sales rep after a customer meeting i was part of. The few accompanying expletives might have helped impress this on me forever :-)

@RonnieScrewvala "It is what it is." I remember @demed told this in one of our meetings and it makes so much sense in every situation.

What’s something your boss told you that has stuck with you your entire career?

@gcabhijeet @RonnieScrewvala 😆 I’m honored something I said ever stuck with you @gcabhijeet! I’m guessing the context was about developing the ability to move on quickly, rather than wasting cycles ruminating the past?

#DevOps? #Developer? #UX designer? Looking at building cool #cloud products and working on something new? From Stockholm, Kuala Lumpur or home? Join us at @Digital_Route careers.digitalroute.com #UBB #usage-based-billing #usage-data #metering #stockholm @sthlmitregion

and maybe also a way to send feedback within the app, without having to get on Twitter? (I was very excited to switch app when my daughter changed school but Vklass has been quite a letdown tbh - and no: my expectations are not very high, this should remain a very simple service)

.@Varldsklass something has to be done about the communications part of app. Nothing more frustrating than seeing iOS notification and not being able to find actual message in app (where? in Communication? nope. In Documents? nope. In reports? nope. Ha, at bottom of start page!)

Hello @Evernote - you've got me confused... #headscratching #error_msg #what_do_you_mean @evernotehelps "This block is a placeholder for Tasks, which has been officially released on the newest version of Evernote and is no longer supported on this version"

@mpezziniGartner All the best in whatever comes next @mpezziniGartner !

Dear followers, yesterday was my last day with Gartner, but I don’t know how to change my handle to @mpezziniExGartner …

Dear @SLLokaltrafik - the “new” app experience was obviously designed by someone taking frequent subways. For us, on low frequency trains, it makes no sense. Knowing my train arrives “In 26mn” is nowhere as useful as “at 17:18”. What about a setting option to display exact times?